Erik Schubach

Biography

I got my start writing romance novels by accident. I have always been drawn to strong female characters in books, like Honor Harrington. And I also believe that there is a lack of LGBT characters in media. So one day I came up with a story idea that combines the two... two days later I completed the manuscript for Music of the Soul.

My writing style may not be the most professional nor grammatically correct, but I never profess to be an English major, just a person that wants to share a story. I maintain that my primary language is sarcasm.

Each of my books features strong likeable female characters that are flawed. I think that flaws and emotional or physical scars make us human and give us more character than simply conforming to some "social norm".

I have also started a SciFi series, The Valkyrie Chronicles which features a Valkyrie, Kara, who was left behind on Earth five thousand years ago to help the Asgard race escape the onslaught of the Ragnarok horde. With the aid of a human, Kate, she holds the line in battle to herald the return of the Asgard!

If you like magic, paranormal romance and witches, then my new series Fracture might tickle your fancy. In the first book Fracture: Divergence, Alex King must stop magic from destroying reality. The problem is that Alex must solve the case in parallel universes where in one Alex is male and female in the other.

There is even a modern shapeshifter paranormal series, Drakon. Featuring a fiery Irish woman with a sharp wit and sharper temper who finds out she is a dragon of legend.

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?

I started writing in March of 2013 when I wrote my debut lesbian romance book, Music of the Soul.

What motivated you to become an indie author?

My nieces are lesbian and couldn't find any mainstream books with characters they could relate with. And when they did find books with LGBT characters, they were the stereotypical quirky gay best friend, and even then, not a main character. So I decided I was going to write books with characters they could identify with, and being gay would not be the focus of the books since sexuality doesn't define a person. Rather it is just one aspect of who they are, like being right handed, or a redhead.

This cozy mystery lesbian romantic comedy series follows Finnegan May as she navigates the dog walking industry in New York City. Her roommate and love interest, Detective Jane McLeary, has her hands full keeping Fin out of the trouble that just seems to gravitate to her.

When the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, Vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is complete one thousand years later.

Junes Harris-West starts an invitation only record label in London. Her way of recruiting new talent via her J-Cards becomes a thing of urban legend.
(London Harmony is a spinoff series of Music of the Soul)

The Fixit Adventures Anthology features all five of the Fixit Adventures novellas...
Fixit
Glitch
Vashon
Descent
Sedition
... and a bonus short story prequel Rift Jumpers: Faster Than Light
Enjoy the entirety of Vega Hasher, Fixit, saga. The agricultural pinger mechanic of Tau Ceti Prime who winds up being the person most important to their planet's survival.

The daughter of Queen Jania Sure Step, the All Mother of the Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar elves, is at a crucial juncture in her life as she becomes an adult. She must choose from three paths before her, yet she feels none of those are her calling.
Crowned Princess of the Elves, Arin, named for the fallen Hero of Asgard and Olympus, finds a path lost to her people and restarts old traditions.

Dogs are vanishing from their homes after dog walkers from RCW drop them off after their walks. There's no signs of forced entry and nothing in the homes are missing. So the dogs are written off by the NYPD as runaways.
Fin, Calvin, Jane, and even Luce, get embroiled in a case that is much more than it seems. It will take all their resources combined to bring the dog-nappers to justice.

The one thing about interstellar space is that it is vast on a scale that is almost incomprehensible. Yet the Worlsdhip Leviathan finds that there are two herculean vessels approaching on an intercept course from the Earth they left behind five thousand years ago.
Conditions are dire on the Cityships, and Knith Shade's advance team is sent to evaluate the ships and the people on board.

The fallout from Evangeline's rescue of Felicia in the Under-Veil and the plans of the mysterious puppet master who has been manipulating events on both sides of the veil, comes to a head.
Rumblings on both sides of Evie's gateway point to the Dragons being on the move as the Crimson Court declare all out war against the Willow Court and the mortal realm.

While attending a college football game with her family for Brianne, one of Finnegan's friends gets hurt when the opposing team's mascot, a bulldog, gets taken.
With a hurricane bearing down on New York, Finnegan and her loyal sidekick, Cir Calvin Cornelius Fluffytoes, track down the dog and then run off into the hurricane with it with no way of contacting her Detective wife, Jane McLeary.

Fire - the most terrifying concept on an interstellar ship like the Leviathan. Enforcer Knith Shade is tasked to investigate one on the Alpha-Stack of the Worldship & uncover who was responsible for it when Queen Mab is the primary suspect.
Things are never as they seem as Knith soon discovers, when she finds that the myths & legends of beings called Firewyrms may not be mythological after all.

Emily has determined that Sparo had surpassed New Cali in both knowledge and technology, even though they were still a people capable of great violence, and thus it was time that the two people met, to share their cultures and knowledge with each other.
An expedition is arranged, led by the Great Mother of the Mountain Gypsies, Laney of Wexbury. Laney faces her greatest challenge yet.

Finnegan Temperance McLeary-May, dog walker extraordinaire has had an eventful time in Manhattan since she first moved to New York City. Her unique profession and quirky, bubbly personality endear her to everyone who meets her.
Jane learns as she is racing against the clock to save her trouble magnet wife again, that Luce is more like Finnegan than they thought when she goes missing as well.

Last Upon a time...
The women of fairy tales, myth & legend must split up to face the enemies on many fronts. Fighting a losing battle, the Avatars give all that they have to save the world from Armageddon.
It all comes down to the woman who started it all, Maireni Damaschin, the Red Hood, as she attempts to outmaneuver these timeless titans who can destroy worlds with but a thought.

Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, and mankind embarks on a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet.The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with humans to save what they can from the dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, Vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is completed 1000 years later.

It seems that Finnegan has taken her knack for getting into misadventures international as she flies to Ireland to work on the adoption process of Luce, an 11 year old orphan who's quirks and eccentricities remind everyone of a young Fin.
Fin's wife, Detective Jane McLeary-May, and the police commander of Belfast head out in search of Finnegan and Luce when disturbances that can only be her

The Olympians, under the threat of attack by Titan vessels, must flee their home and abandon their Citadel on Olympus. Kara, the Wild One, First Valkyrie of Asgard heads out into space to draw a line to dare the Titans to cross.
Artemis, the Three Embers, and a peace envoy must travel to Alfheim to treat with the Queen of the Light Elves to allow the Olympians to seek sanctuary on their planet.

Finnegan Temperance McLeary-May, dog walker extraordinaire has had an eventful time in Manhattan since she first moved to New York City. Her unique profession and quirky, bubbly personality endear her to everyone who meets her.
Finnegan's penchant for stumbling into misadventures is hard at work embroiling her in a case involving purloined art, graffiti, & an adorable but goofy, one year old pup.

Professor Aya Bane, self proclaimed Indiana Jones of archeology (yes, she may be that much of a geek) finds herself thrown into a world of ancient gods and unexplained murders in Egypt while on a dig.
Called in for a consult to an excavation at a suspected temple of Anubis, god of the underworld, she is embroiled in a series of fantastical events.

While Finnegan and Jane are on their honeymoon, Fin finds a lost dog. The little Yorkshire Terrier becomes a mystery as everything seems to snowball around the women, causing Finnegan to think she might really be a magnet for trouble like her family keeps implying.
After a string of break ins, all the evidence keeps pointing toward the little dog, Killer. And that's when the mystery deepens.

I taught you to fight and to fly, what more can there be?
Robyn and Amanda fall off the path to Perchta's garden, where the Avatars were retreating to in order plan against the Elders resetting of the mortal realm. They find themselves in a land where imagination is the most dangerous of weapons... Neverland.
Everything we know about Pan, the Hook, and the Lost Boys gets all turned around.

Eve, along with her sister Zoey, has an uncanny knack for helping people who frequent the Pike bakery at Pike Place Market in Seattle to find love. Her meddling is a thing of legends when it comes to matchmaking. But for Eve, it is a spectator sport as she has never really pursued a romantic relationship of her own.
Until now.

After Avalon's tanks & guns lose a massive confrontation against the Knights and magic of Sparo, they finally agree to peace talks.
Laney & the other Templars are chosen to lead the peace envoy that travels to the mysterious land of the north, which has so much of the technology from the Great Wizards of the Before.
The mission is put in peril when they learn who leads the Avalonian peace envoy.

A resident of the Flotilla Project, Emery, attempts to put her life together after losing her job because of an affliction beyond her control. She's all but given up on her dream of being an architect, & now works as a toll attendant at the last toll gate in London.
A chance meeting with a stranded motorist immerses Emery in a whirlwind romance with someone she could only ever have dreamed of.

As Prime completes its perihelion orbit at the end of the pass, a new peril arises and only Fixit can save the star system from calamity. Fixit & Glitch must put all of their knowledge, skills, and creativity to the test to go off world to save Vashon and the population of the floating cities of Prime from certain death. She races against time in the harshest environment she's ever faced... space!

Emily Monroe may be a lot of things, but one thing is for sure, she is NOT the Chosen One.
Now that the truth about Emily and the Chosen One has been revealed to them, they are reeling and things will never again be the same for Emily at Big Burger.
The Chosen One rebels, learning the truth about her family and the Mayor strips her of the mantle of the champion of Big City.

Finnegan can't seem to help herself from getting embroiled in trouble. It just seems to follow her around. On a simple visit to a bakery to get her jerk cop a danish, she lands herself in the middle of dognapping and death.
It's up to Detective Jane McLeary to find Fin as she flees through a blizzard in the middle of New York city with a huge Great Dane before her relentless pursuer catches her.

A year ago, Cameron had a really bad day. The day she was killed in a literal train wreck. The only problem was that she forgot to die. She found out that for her, death was only the beginning.
Hunted by the government, Cameron must avoid capture as she comes to terms with her new reality. When she is injured, she loses pieces of herself as they are replaced by a transparent ectoplasm.

Emily Monroe may be a lot of things, but one thing is for sure, she is NOT the Chosen One.
Emily is a normal girl working at Big Burger who has the unfortunate luck to look exactly like Big City's superhero darling, the Chosen One.
It has been the bane of her existence as it disrupts her life and those around her when super villains come knocking, wanting to prove their mettle .

Like a magnet for trouble, Finnegan finds herself embroiled in a string of robberies that has spanned decades, while she tries to rescue a stray golden retriever who dropped a bag of money at her feet.
It is up to Detective Jane McLeary to solve the famous Broadway Cat thefts before Finnegan finds herself knee deep in things yet again.

After thousands of years away from her home planet of Olympus, Artemis of the Hunt has finally returned to the Citadel.
She brings with her hundreds of Olympian men rescued from the clutches of the Titans by the legendary Valkyrie, Kara the Wild One.
Olympus comes under attack, and Artemis and the Asgard must stand against the oncoming enemy.

In this short novella, Olivia flies to Las Vegas on a business trip with her fiancé. And in one day everything in her life goes to hell. After a night of drinking to forget, Olivia wakes up the next morning in her hotel room to find a wedding band on her finger and the person in her bed not who she was expecting.

Finnegan May has had an eventful time in Manhattan since she first moved to New York City. Her unique profession and quirky, bubbly personality endear her to everyone who meets her.
She again finds herself in another misadventure when she rescues a long haired Dachshund from a hot car on the streets of the city. Her propensity for doing the right thing throws her into peril.

Sometimes wicked... is really good.
Parker and Ella-Marie find themselves cut off from the group of Avatars heading to hide in Perchta's Garden. Instead they find themselves flung into a fantastical land, facing a powerful witch who claims to be Dorothy of Oz.
The women offer their help to free Oz of the demon scourge that threatens the magical lands and people there.

Finnegan May has always had a carefree life in New York. Her love of animals landed her in a unique job as the premiere dog walker to the rich and famous in the city that never sleeps.
She winds up in the middle of a murder investigation when one of her clients winds up dead and the police are looking at her as the prime suspect.
Fin must deal with being investigated and her waggy tail clients.

Laney and Celeste, Templars of Sparo, embark upon a mission of mercy to a far off land to aid a people thought lost to time before the Altii even found the Lower Ten.
The Westlands are found along with a new enemy that Sparo may not be able to stand against… Avalon.
Can this new threat be the Great Wizards of the Before Times? New alliances will be forged, hearts will be held and broken.

There are many things that Marina, lieutenant in the US Coast Guard, doesn’t know. Among them are exactly who, or what, she is.
Her whole life she hidden her abilities in water. Able to swim faster, dive deeper, and hold her breath for almost fifteen minutes at a time. The webbing on her hands and feet make her feel as if she was some sort of mermaid.

Paya finds that the Flotilla has grown to a size it is difficult for her to manage on her own while having to also manage the deliveries and ride service needed on top of it all. So grudgingly she hires a temp to do the running.
She hires Reid on the recommendation of Lenore’s little sister, Christine. She is delighted to find that Reid is the mysterious person that Christine has been dating.

Found unconscious in an impact crater in the Cascade Mountains, with no memory of who she is or how she got there, Sloan Tesha attempts to start a new life as she tries to discover who she really is. As she recovers, the tattoos that cover her body begin to move and morph under her skin, the threads of ink reweaving to reflect the life all around her.
(This story is set in the New Sentinels world

When the punk rock queen of Seattle, Na Na Evermore, does a broadcast highlighting the Pike Bakery. The mischievous and meddlesome sisters, Eve and Zoey go about nudging her toward the geeky personal assistant assigned to Na Na, Karmin Hughes. Hilarity and romance ensue, and as usual all it takes is just a nudge from everyone’s favorite redheads.

Adelaide Oliver, raised in the bayou in New Orleans, flees the Big Easy to Seattle when she believes she is seeing things and losing her mind.
What she doesn't realize is that she is a Raven Maid, a secret of the Voodoo, Vodoun faith.
She walks the path between this world and the next, guiding lost souls to their final destination, whether that be the wayward spirit's idea of heaven or hell.

Melinda Stafford, an inspector with London’s Office of Historic Preservation is assigned to oversee the renovation of a historic building along the River Thames that the Flotilla Project is converting into living spaces for those in need.
She wasn’t prepared to meet a boiler system mechanic who played into her obsession with all things Victorian. Beatrice Abbott passes all of Melinda’s buttons.

Even the most beastly… may hold beauty inside.
While Daria McQueen mourns. The legends of fairytales fight to contain the incursions of the new demon hybrid contagion that Styche the Trickster has unleashed upon the world.
An enraged and seemingly unstoppable demon appears, and it seems just as powerful as Styche. It directs its boundless rage at anything that moves, friend or foe.

Madelyn Stone and her brother moved to Seattle to make a fresh start and leave their troubled past behind them. With her brother working in a scrapyard, and Madelyn selling handmade items from her cart in Pike Place Market, everything is starting to look up.
It all comes crashing down around Maddie when a thief makes off with her cash box, but not before her vendor cart get’s demolished.

As the shadow of Civil War looms over the lands of Sparo, Laney and Celeste must navigate the twists and turns of a sedition that runs deep through all the realms, orchestrated by a familiar foe.
Can Laney stop the treasonous plan from coming to fruition as she attends the Capitol for the Royal Masquerade?

15 years after Ichabod Crane rid Sleepy Hollow of the wraith of a fallen Hessian soldier, the Headless Horseman, which terrorized the village. Now word has spread of the Horseman’s return.
Ichabod’s daughter, Imelda, answers the call to stop the Horseman at all costs. Armed with her father’s sword, fighting prowess, and sharp mind, Imelda uncovers the secrets the Hollow has hidden for so long.

Lenore is assigned as the driver for a contractor, McGrath, who is renovating a building for the Flotilla, which will allow people who had fallen upon hard times to have a place to call their own.
The problem? Lenore finds McGrath to be the most infuriating, cocky, and egotistical woman on the planet. They mix like oil and water and Lenore wants nothing more than to throw a match on the mixture.

Her faith, unshakable… and her aim is true.
The legends of fairytales descend upon Issaquah, Washington from Seattle in response to the report of lemon activity. They find themselves under attack by an archer with uncanny aim and unnatural speed and agility.
The group’s beta wolf, Amanda Danes, finds herself in pursuit of a legend. Robyn of Locksley. The fabled Robin Hood of Nottingham.

Ligaya is a quantum physicist working in a research lab at the University of Washington. She is seduced the numbers with a drive that excludes everything in her life including social interactions.
Emotions have always been hard for her to understand or express. When she meets an ex firefighter, Allison, she finds herself fighting to understand all the new feelings rising inside.

While out celebrating her twenty first birthday, Angelina Drake finds herself immersed in a curse that goes back generations, to the time when the first Djinn terrorized the world.
She has to fight for her life and her friends when an old evil comes knocking. The wishes of the people around her just complicates the situation as she can hear them all, spoken or not.

This Sucks is the second in the series of young adult novellas that follow three friends with paranormal powers as they graduate from school and start an odd jobs business together.
Violet Parsons isn’t your typical teenage girl. Not since an accident two years ago that almost cost her life.
A little paranormal intervention changed her in ways she has kept hidden from even her close friends.

Paya stumbles upon a woman in need on the streets, Angie Wells, who she quickly finds is an amazing woman in her own right.
In her own unique way, Paya helps Angie to stand back on her own feet again, and helps Angie to navigate life and love when she introduces her to a woman, Stephanie, and her children.

Face her blade… or face her bears.
A chance meeting with a young woman and her brother finds the one thing her heart had been missing.
Infused with power she never desired, Goldilocks and her companions take on a dark witch and her druid son. The cost of victory may be more than Katiana was willing to pay.

When distressing news calls June home from London to the Seattle area, she discovers something she was not expecting in the most unlikely of places. She never would have thought that she could find such musical talent hiding in the kitchen of the Pike.
When she crosses paths with Leigh and Ashley by pure happenstance, amazing things begin to unfold.